Gasp100
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I built a nice partscaster and it's playing pretty well, but I have one fairly major issue. I didn't have any string tree's so I just strung it up for testing, and everything was fine. The only problem was that when fretting a D chord, it would sound out of tune. I made sure open tuning was fine and other chords seemed to sound okay, so I figured string tree's would fix the issue. Well, they did not. In fact, while installing one of the string trees the screw to one of them broke off INTO THE HEADSTOCK
:BOUNCE
F***ing cheap ass plastic made to look like chrome I guess, I don't know.
So, now the headstock is marred a bit... anyway, how do you troubleshoot a guitar that is tuned correctly, but when certain chords are played (like I said, lower frets, D - E strings) the chord/tuning is out...? Is this a problem with the nut possibly? I bet, it's a cheap plastic nut on this neck and it's killing me... please let me know. As of right now I've pulled the guitar from the emporium and I'm selling the loaded Tele body only. I may have to just trash the neck, which is ashame because it's really nice aside from this tuning problem.
This neck is pissing me off because I tried to use this on another guitar and took it to a pro whole made it even worse. I then bought this gear to build around the neck and I'm having more problems.... I should just cut my loses (hence selling the loaded body which is killer).
:BOUNCE
F***ing cheap ass plastic made to look like chrome I guess, I don't know.
So, now the headstock is marred a bit... anyway, how do you troubleshoot a guitar that is tuned correctly, but when certain chords are played (like I said, lower frets, D - E strings) the chord/tuning is out...? Is this a problem with the nut possibly? I bet, it's a cheap plastic nut on this neck and it's killing me... please let me know. As of right now I've pulled the guitar from the emporium and I'm selling the loaded Tele body only. I may have to just trash the neck, which is ashame because it's really nice aside from this tuning problem.
This neck is pissing me off because I tried to use this on another guitar and took it to a pro whole made it even worse. I then bought this gear to build around the neck and I'm having more problems.... I should just cut my loses (hence selling the loaded body which is killer).